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It's not that I'm a very good person. It's that I think I should at least look at the ways in which I am not a good person, the ways in which I so readily become the person who would not notice that the wonderful clothing I'm wearing someone is probably dying for.
Jamaica Kincaid
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There can be little doubt that in many ways the story of bridge building is the story of civilisation. By it we can readily measure an important part of a people's progress.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I wanted to acknowledge my U.S. heritage and to belong to it more closely. Having said that I am certainly British by formation and education and readily think of London as home. I had never lived in the U.S. till 2007.
Jamie Bamber
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Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
Frederick William Faber
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Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.
Jane Austen
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When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I would have loved to have met some former spies, but they don't readily advertise themselves unless they're not living in Moscow, and even then. I'm sure I've met some without realizing it.
Jeremy Northam
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Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.
George Eliot
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.
George Santayana
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How readily the bluebirds become our friends and neighbors when we offer them suitable nesting retreats!
John Burroughs
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Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.
George Santayana
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Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.
Giacomo Casanova
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There's a wonderful author named Can Themba, who said that Africa extends a fraternal handshake to Shakespeare. That William Shakespeare would have recognized Elizabethan England more readily in Africa today than in England today.
Gregory Doran
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In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd.
Eckhart Tolle
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The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.
Gustav Holst
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
Edward Abbey
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I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.
Harry Shearer
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Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.
Edwin Land
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All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.
Henry David Thoreau
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Cat lovers can readily be identified. Their clothes always look old and well used. Their sheets look like bath towels, and their bath towels look like a collection of knitting mistakes.
Eric Gurney
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The symmetry of form attainable in pure fiction can not so readily be achieved in a narration essentially having less to do with fable than with fact. Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.
Herman Melville
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Nobody appropriates novelties as readily as the Portuguese.
Fernando Pessoa
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Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.
Horace Kallen
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